Frank O. Heintz, the recently retired president and chief executive officer of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., was nominated yesterday by Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith Jr. to head the county Planning Board. Heintz would replace Charles E. Klein, who served as chairman of the land use panel for two years. Klein, a nine-year member, stepped down from the board at the end of his three-year term last month. Heintz, who lives in Towson, is a former state delegate and former chairman of the Maryland Public Service Commission.

Frank O. Heintz, president of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., will retire Oct. 1, BGE's parent company Constellation Energy Group said yesterday. Heintz, a former state delegate and former Maryland Public Service Commission chairman who joined BGE in 1996 as a vice president, will be succeeded by Kenneth W. DeFontes Jr., a 32-year BGE veteran and current vice president of electric transmission and distribution. Heintz, 60, said yesterday that he is retiring to devote more time to his family, his church and the "spiritual" aspects of his life.

On Monday, February 2, 2004, at Salisbury Center Genesis Elder Care, JOHN "JACK" PAUL HEINTZ, 78. Mr. Heintz was born October 22, 1925, graduated from Forest Park High School and the Baltimore School of Technology, and proudly serviced in the United States Navy during World War II. He was employed by and retired from WBAL-TV, Hearst Corporation as a n electronics engineer. His hobbies included flying, building and boating. He was a great father and is survived by his four daughters: Bonnie Shilling Bentley, Cheryl Abbott, Carole Rogers Kelly and Terrie Leavey Gruver; sister Delia Read, nine grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

By Michael Dresser and Michael Dresser,Sun Staff Writer Frank Langfitt of The Sun's Annapolis Bureau contributed to this article | April 18, 1995

Frank O. Heintz, the studious former Peace Corps volunteer )) who has served as Maryland's chief utility regulator for 13 years, resigned yesterday to take a job with a trade association.Mr. Heintz, who was chairman of the Public Service Commission as Maryland became one of the earliest states to open its market to telephone industry competition, told Gov. Parris N. Glendening in a letter yesterday that "the time has come to begin a new stage in my professional career."The 51-year-old Baltimore lawyer will become executive director of the Caucus of Local Distribution Companies, an arm of the American Gas Association in Washington.

On Monday, February 2, 2004, at Salisbury Center Genesis Elder Care, JOHN "JACK" PAUL HEINTZ, 78. Mr. Heintz was born October 22, 1925, graduated from Forest Park High School and the Baltimore School of Technology, and proudly served in the United States Navy during World War II. He was employed by and retired from WBAL-TV, Hearst Corporation as a n electronics engineer. His hobbies included flying, building and boating. He was a great father and is survived by his four daughters: Bonnie Shilling Bentley, Cheryl Abbott, Carole Rogers Kelly and Terrie Leavey Gruver; sister Delia Read, nine grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

More than 370,000 Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers were still waiting for power yesterday, and company executives cautioned that it could be Friday, more than a week after the first outages occurred, before power is restored to all. BGE President and Chief Executive Frank O. Heintz blamed the slow pace of recovery on a storm that he called the worst ever faced by the utility and said its economic consequences are "very, very serious ... throughout...